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LeBron James: Hard to fully assess 16-16 Los Angeles Lakers ‘when we haven’t been whole’
“We don’t know,” James said. “We have no idea what this team can be.” After seeing his game-high 34 points go to waste — his eighth 30-point performance in L.A.’s past 12 games — the 19-year veteran rattled off the setbacks the Lakers have suffered. There were the dozen games he missed. The injuries that […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers need steady play from Russell Westbrook with roster depleted, acting head coach David Fizdale says
As the team tries to weather the maelstrom of maladies it is facing, former league MVP and nine-time All-Star Russell Westbrook has taken it upon himself to try to pull them out of it. However, acting head coach David Fizdale — filling in for Frank Vogel while he is recovering from COVID-19 — said the […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis says he feared major injury after hearing ‘something pop’ in knee
“I just reached a point where it was tough to walk,” Davis said Sunday, speaking to reporters for the first time since suffering a sprained medial collateral ligament in his left knee. “I had to take a break. … I did hear something pop — and the first thing I thought of was [a major […]
Continue readingLakers’ Russell Westbrook clears COVID protocol; team signs Isaiah Thomas to 10-day contract
Westbrook flew from Dallas to Minneapolis after the testing, sources told ESPN’s Adrian Wojnarowski. Westbrook was placed in the health and safety protocols following the Lakers’ 107-104 overtime road win against the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. For a player to be cleared from the protocols, he must return two negative tests 24 hours apart. “It’s […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers add Russell Westbrook, Avery Bradley to COVID-19 protocols
Meanwhile, the Lakers, if granted a hardship exemption by the league, plan to sign free agent Isaiah Thomas to a 10-day contract on Friday, sources told ESPN. The hardship exemption was put into place by the league to allow a team to exceed the full 15-man roster limit if dealing with sickness or illness to […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers’ Anthony Davis says team needs to play like ‘underdogs’ after loss to Grizzlies
“These guys already feel like they’re the underdogs when they’re coming in, especially when they’re without their star players,” Davis said of a Memphis team playing without its top two scorers, Ja Morant and Dillon Brooks, because of the health and safety protocols. “And we got to play like we’re the underdogs. Which, now, at […]
Continue readingJonas Valanciunas goes 7-for-7 from 3 in first half, scores career-high 39 as Pelicans beat Clippers again
But those days are long gone. Valanciunas hit his first seven 3-pointers on Monday night — all in the first half — as he helped lead the New Orleans Pelicans to a 123-104 win over the LA Clippers. The 6-foot-11, 265-pound bruiser has slowly started to add the three-point shot to his game since 2017, […]
Continue readingLakers fall below .500 in LeBron James’ return from injury: No level of panic, but ‘should be some sense of urgency’
The defeat dropped Los Angeles — one of the oddsmakers’ favorites to win the championship — to 8-9 with more than a fifth of the season in the books. “It’s never, ‘We got 65 games left,’” James said when asked if he can take the long view considering the Lakers’ early injuries and how much […]
Continue readingJimmy Butler exits Miami Heat’s OT loss to Los Angeles Lakers due to ankle sprain
Butler scored seven points while playing the entire first quarter, but the Heat ruled him out for the rest of the game. Miami coach Erik Spoelstra had no postgame update on Butler’s condition. Butler began the night averaging 25.3 points, 6.0 rebounds and 5.5 assists while playing in every game this season for Miami. The […]
Continue readingLos Angeles Lakers win second straight in OT, saying poor showing in Portland provided a push
“After that Portland loss, we took that personally,” Davis said of Saturday’s 115-90 defeat, a game in which L.A. trailed by as many as 34 points. “We’re not that type of team. No energy. No effort. A little bit of selfishness. And we just tried to change that.” Playing without LeBron James for the fourth […]
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